Personality profiles of bully perpetrators and bully victims as a basis for identifying social transactional games

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dc.contributor.advisor Eskell-Blokland, Linda en
dc.contributor.postgraduate Opper, Ancois en
dc.date.accessioned 2015-01-19T12:11:16Z
dc.date.available 2015-01-19T12:11:16Z
dc.date.created 2014/12/12 en
dc.date.issued 2013 en
dc.description Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013. en
dc.description.abstract This research study deals with the widespread concern that exists amongst parents, educators and healthcare professionals working with children about issues regarding bullying in childhood and adolescence. By using the Transactional Analysis (TA) theory, this research project aimed to describe possible social transactions that occur between bully perpetrators and bully victims, and to examine these social transactions from the perspective of potentially predisposed personality profiles. The link between the personality profile and social transactions lie within the notion that our personality profiles could possibly influence the way we interact with or behave towards other individuals. The motivation behind this research study was therefore to analyse and examine the social transactions that occur between bully perpetrators and bully victims, which exemplifies the unique relationship that defines a bully perpetrator and bully victim in order to better explain (by way of TA) the ‘games’ they play. This was done by identifying the psychological profile tendencies that prompt bully perpetrators and bully victims to engage in repetitive transactions in order to uncover the games they tend to play, as well as to foster an understanding of why bully victims struggle to ‘unhook’ from these dysfunctional transactions. en
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dc.description.degree PhD en
dc.description.department Psychology en
dc.description.librarian lk2014 en
dc.identifier.citation Opper, A 2013, Personality profiles of bully perpetrators and bully victims as a basis for identifying social transactional games, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43214> en
dc.identifier.other D14/9/7 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43214
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher University of Pretoria en_ZA
dc.rights © 2014 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. en
dc.subject Bully perpetrator en
dc.subject Bully victim en
dc.subject Bullying behaviour en
dc.subject Social transactions en
dc.subject Transactional Analysis (TA) en
dc.subject UCTD en
dc.title Personality profiles of bully perpetrators and bully victims as a basis for identifying social transactional games en
dc.type Thesis en


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